Re: THEORY: questions
| From: | Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 10, 2003, 13:39 |
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Rachel Klippenstein <estel_telcontar@...> 2003.03.10. 00:41:31 -5h-kor írta:
> Is there any sound that [h] is likely to change into?
> Might it change into [?]? I've heard that [h] has a
> stronger tendency to be lost than to change into other
> sounds.
I don't know, AFMCLs, in Meyadhew it disappeared word-initially
and had become [x] medially and sometimes [k_h]. In Long Wer
[h] tends to disappear between two identical vowels, and during
its evolution it had been eluded initially while voiced h (i don't know the sampa sign)
had become [h].
> And suppose a language loses its markers for noun
> plurality and verb past tense through a regular sound
> change. How is a language likely to deal with that?
> Develop periphrastic constructions? Do without??
>
> Rachel
Well these ideas aren't a feature of nouns everywhere. There
are pretty many languages without them. You just can avoid tense
by adverbs like "now", "yesterday" etc. and for plurality : "many",
"some", "several".
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